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Tue 10 Oct 2009State urged to pay compensation to trafficking victims
VICTIMS OF human trafficking should be able to obtain compensation from the State in cases where their traffickers cannot be found and made liable, a conference on the subject has been told.
Hilkka Becker, a solicitor with the Immigrant Council of Ireland, called for a quick and streamlined “avenue”, with an independent appeals mechanism, to compensate trafficking victims for the trauma they had suffered.
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